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MACARONI CHEESE

MACARONI CHEESE

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Serves: 4

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This is the shortcut version: no cheese sauce, but a gorgeously huge amount of cheese, bound with egg and evaporated milk. Yum.

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Ingredients

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  • 250 grams macaroni
  • 250 grams mature Cheddar (or red leicester or mix of both)
  • 250 ml evaporated milk
  • 2 large eggs
  • grating of fresh nutmeg
  • salt (to taste)
  • pepper (to taste)
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Method

  1. Preheat the oven to 220°C/gas mark 7/425°F. Cook the macaroni according to the packet instructions, drain and then put back into the hot pan.
  2. While the pasta is cooking, put the cheese, evaporated milk, eggs and nutmeg in a processor and blitz to mix. Or grate the cheese and mix everything by hand.
  3. Pour the cheese sauce over the macaroni, stir well, and season with salt and pepper to taste.
  4. Tip into a 25.5 cm/10 inch-diameter dish (wide and shallow is best) and bake in the very hot oven for about 10-15 minutes, or until it is bubbling and blistering on top.

Additional information - for vegetarians make sure the cheeses are made with vegetarin rennet.

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  • How many eggs do you need? There are in the method and info but not the recipe. Looks lovely and I have some evaporated milk that is just sitting around and I thought this would be perfect.

    Posted by glitterysnails on 8th May 2011 at 14.43

  • This is even better with cream instead of evaporated milk. Full fat, of course!

    Posted by Glasgow10 on 26th Jul 2011 at 16.38

  • Looks divine :) !!!!

    Posted by Gibbo 007 on 27th Sep 2011 at 18.11

  • Made this - yum... Check out our comments - twolittlebakers.wordpress.com

    Posted by Shimmy on 6th Feb 2013 at 22.04

  • For Valentine's Day this year my boyfriend and I have decided to cook dinner together. We had already decided on homemade mac & cheese, rib eye steak (his specialty) and a big butter lettuce salad. Listening to NPR this week I heard you speaking about this fabulous sounding recipe. My boyfriend called me from the car… "Are you listening to NPR right now?!" he asked. Of course I was. Our dinner date was planned. Thanks Nigella! Christina www.foodiewithalife.com

    Posted by FoodieWithALife on 14th Feb 2013 at 0.41

  • Did this for supper and used cream instead - it was lovely.

    Posted by phyllis41 on 17th Feb 2013 at 17.13

  • I love this as is, but also adapt it to make a all-in-one-dish toddler-friendly meal by adding 500g of browned mince/sausage meat, add a bit of pre-washed spinanch to meat at the end, then add alved baby tomatoes to the top to sweeten as the cheese browns. Nutmeg still goes well with these flavours, but so does paprika or a dash of chilli. Or add some olives (I'm salivating now). Wonderful meal. All this isn't to say the original version isn't lucious, but it's a great base for a meal to pop in the oven.

    Posted by Snuva on 28th Mar 2013 at 9.25

  • And if I may comment again, my condensed milk is 375g, so I do 375g of macaroni, cheese, and the milk and add an extra egg - then put it in a big, wide dish for backing.

    Posted by Snuva on 28th Mar 2013 at 9.29